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The Ghost Of Elvis

from Caterpillar Maze by Steve Grieve and The Mourners

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lyrics

The Ghost Of Elvis - Myles

The pilot apologised, yeah the sun came up
and his eyes were bleeding
He said L.A.’s one wild town, just ignore the air you breathe
The freeways are suicide, it’s left hand drive with a right side brain
The real beauty of the place, they’ve redefined the meaning of strange

I feel like I’ve found a place where
All you get is your personal space
And they give it away on the TV and radio
‘Till in the desert west of Tucson I saw a sunset like I’d never known

The spirit of Halloween,
yeah the day of the dead and the place went crazy
The police went and shot a guy, it was fancy dress, his gun was a phony
Well I hit the Sunset Strip, in a gold Cadillac with the ghost of Elvis
The people cried out to him, it’s pretty clear they miss their King

For in this place celebrity is greater than I thought it would be
It’s an opiate for all those ordinary lives
In the desert west of Tucson I saw ten thousand stars in the sky

There’s just no turning back in this race
There’s a crazy plan, yeah they’re gonna see it through
And patriotism holds it all in place
Yeah they’re clinging to the red, white and blue,
just hanging on, just hanging on to

The edge of reality, ain’t nothing but a hound dog in blue suede shoes
Down in Tallahassee the hanging chad is the black man’s blues
So it’s viva Las Vegas, from the Heartbreak Hotel to the Jailhouse Rock
Elvis can you help us, democracy has lost the plot

And the candidate from the Lone Star State,
he’s a reborn soul but a real disgrace
To lead the free world man you’ve just got to
And in the sunset west of Tucson,
the cowboy’s riding slowly away

credits

from Caterpillar Maze, released July 29, 2017
Dan Myles - vocals
Steve Grieve - acoustic and electric guitars
Greg Royal - bass guitar
Mick Skelton - drums
Stu Hunter - Hammond B3 organ, grand piano
Sue Totterdell - backing vocals

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Steve Grieve and The Mourners inhabit an enigmatic virtual Neverland of hazy musical dreams, outback chicanery, and lumpy, urbane hybrid rock, roots and blues edifices. The band has acquired an improbable yet mythical cult status and their most recent confrontations with crass commercialism, lazy stereotypes and alliteration are ceremoniously captured on the new album Caterpillar Maze. ... more

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